Signor Voluti, who was a famous tenor in Europe forty or fifty years ago, died quite recently at the age of eighty years. W. J. Humphreys, convicted of the murder of Thomas Lee, in Newton county, Ga., has been sentenced to be hung on the 4th of May. Ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia, has announced himself a candidate for re-election to Congress. The dwelling of Sheriff Alexander, near Charlotte, N. C., with its contents, was destroyed by fire on the 24th inst. A dispatch form New York announces the loss of the ship Juniata, owned by Messrs. Hugh Jenkins &Co., of Baltimore. The Philadelphia Pennsylvanian has stopped publication, from ‘"the exactions of stern necessity."’ President Lincoln visited the Navy-Yard at Washington Tuesday, and was received with a salute of 21 guns.
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